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Sample code for the Preview Edition of "Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms"

xamarin-forms-book-preview

Sample code for the Preview Edition of "Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms"

Notes

All projects have been upgraded to Xamarin.Forms 1.2.3.

###Introduction

In the last sentence under the Acknowledgements header (page 29) the word "with" should be "without." (Sorry, Deirdre.)

###Chapter 2

Under the Say hello header, in the paragraph that begins "In Visual Studio, you'll probably want to display..." (pg 29), the toolbar identified as Xamarin.Android should be just Android.

Under the Frame and BoxView header, the code sample following the paragraph "Try this" (straddling pgs. 71 and 72) is missing a right curly brace and a semicolon, and it might show up as a right square bracket in some ereaders.

In the BlackCatPage and BlackCatSapPage classes, in the initializatin of the ScrollView (pg. 76) the property IsClippedToBounds has been set to true. This fixes a scrolling problem encountered on Android devices in Xamarin.Forms 1.2.3.

###Chapter 3

Under the Automated data bindings header, in the bulleted list of BindingMode enumeration members (pg. 134), OneWayToSource should be described as "target updates source".

###Chapter 5

Under the Image and bitmaps header, in the code sample following the paragraph beginning "The BitmapFromResourcePage class loads the smaller (pg 218), the filename should be "ModernUserInterface256.JPG".

###Chapter 6

Under the Custom views: a radio button header, the code listing of the RadioButton class has an incorrect character in the printed copy for the settings of the checkOff and checkOn variables. The two variables should be initialized as "\u25CB" and "\u25C9".

The TapGestureRecognizer in the RadioButton class (pg. 254) and RadioExtensions class (pg. 256) has been changed from a callback to a Tapped handler because the callback is now deprecated.